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John Oliver promoted alternatives to big tech in last night's episode, including Mastodon and Pixelfed

It's brief, around 25:15

If you've been sitting on making a post about your favorite instance, this could be a good opportunity to do so.

Going by our registration applications, a lot of people are learning about the fediverse for the first time and they're excited about the idea. I've really enjoyed reading through them :)

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John Oliver promoted alternatives to big tech in last night's episode, including Mastodon and Pixelfed

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I've been off Twitter for over almost two years now, on to Federated Mastodon and Mbin, and while I've often spoke against BlueSky, having been founded by Jack, after Jack let Twitter become infested with Nazis for engagement, then sold it to Elon Musk who he knew was going to kill it, when the world started to come to an end two weeks ago, I needed to be plugged in, so signed up for a BlueSky account. There's simply not enough communication happening on Mastodon, not enough people, not discussing the things I'm interested in.
The Fediverse is also a sewer of both overt and covert Antisemitism, where any pro Jewish or pro Israel content is mysteriously "moderated" by antisemites under the guise of political progressivism, which makes it so much less attractive.
So I swallowed my hatred of Jack, and have been "skeeting" on BlueSky just as I did Twitter for all those years, blocking out the Jew hate there (it is legion), and realizing in the end, that's more important to me, connection to live events and discussion as they're happening to get the best collective overview of any given event
- Having seen many of your comments across lemmy, I feel like you equate a lot of criticism of the state of Israel’s policies and actions with antisemitism. I acknowledge people who hate Jews exist and are definitely on the internet, but I find knee jerk accusations of antisemitism to be intellectually lazy.
  
  seriously - too many people see criticism of Israel's government and read it as condemnation of all Jews. As if it's the case that that government represents all Jewish people worldwide (or even all Jewish people in Israel...!)
  It's like people are thinking that wanting Israel to stop its genocide also means there should be another genocide targeting Jews?? Nuance beyond that sort of black-and-white polarized viewpoint seems to be increasingly dead.
  
  The lack of nuance when discussing that conflict is one of the biggest issues I have. So many people seem to see it as "The Israeli genocide is bad, therefore Hamas is good". In reality, you have shitty people with power fighting shitty people without power, and civilians getting shafted by both.
- I see a lot of anti Zionist stuff here. but nothing anti Semitic.
  just my 2c.
  
  Yup. I'm always wary of people lumping anti zionism, anti Israel government, and anti semitism all in the same bag.
- Oh come on, it's not like you're any better yourself. I've seen your comments around lemmy, and most were racist towards arabs.
  what genocide? arabs attack, rape, and murder, then esconce the terrorists directly in and between civilian populations for the sole reason so that when israel responds the body count can be escalated and used as public relations. genocide. shame on you.
  I don't recall doing any of that.
  Anti zionism =/= anti semitism.
- Jack isn't involved with BlueSky anymore. He left the board when they told him to fuck off with his push to get rid of moderation.
  I've got nothing to add to the other replies on your mischaracterization of antio-Zionist as anti-Semitism.
  
  Jack is still the single largest shareholder of private Bluesky stock (beacause he founded it and never ceded his controlling percentage to anyone) "The Foundation" controls a certain amount, Jack controls the rest, surprise, the "leaving BlueSky" was his agreed stepping away from the board, dude didn't give up his stock, lol. If anyone tells you Jack isn't involved with BlueSky any more, you should really block them for either being willfully ignorant, or purposefully mistrustful.
  
  And what about the antisemitism claims?
  
  Jack is still the single largest shareholder of private Bluesky stock ...
  Oh vraiment?
  https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c8dm0ljg4y6o
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bluesky#%3A%7E%3Atext=It+is+owned+by+CEO%2CMike+Masnick%2C+and+Kinjal+Shah.
  If anyone tells you Jack isn't involved with BlueSky any more, you should really block them for either being willfully ignorant, or purposefully mistrustful
  Sure thing. 👍
- The Fediverse is also a sewer of both overt and covert Antisemitism
  Is this a problem unique to the Fediverse, or is this a case that it's more rampant here? Or does it only seem like it?
  My feeds are fairly well curated, or perhaps you might say "blinkered", so I don't see a lot of it. Or maybe I don't see what's right in front of me, which is why I ask, since you definitely see it better than I can.
  (This is not an attempt at a bad faith argument; I'm firmly anti-anti-Semitism, and I'm not saying it's not there. Frankly, I'd be surprised if there wasn't any. Anywhere there's people, their prejudices generally follow.)
  
  "Lemmy" seems to have be started, and disseminated, by the Hard European Tankie Left, who Administer and Moderate most of it's instances, and what seems to inform the ongoing moderation of any Pro Israel or Pro Jewish voice that has the temerity to defend itself. Lemmy Kilmister owned the largest personal collection of Nazi memorabilia in the world for years up until his death, and just like every other monster you've ever heard of who made that particular obsession the centerpiece of their interest, it probably should have factored in when naming a social media 'verse after. I fully expect all my comments on this to be mysteriously "moderated" as well.
  
  Hard European Tankie Left, who Administer and Moderate most of it's instances
  Weapons grade balognium. There's ml and Lemmygrad, sure, but that's not "most" instances by a long shot.
  
  Stop conflating "Jewish" with "Israel".
  
  What did Lemmy do that made him a monster?
  
  If BlueSky is full of Jew hate, "it's legion", but you’re still using it over Mastodon and Mbin, doesn’t that contradict the idea that antisemitism makes a platform unattractive? If it were your main issue, wouldn’t both be equally bad? Seems like the deciding factor is engagement for you personally, not what moderation happens or doesn't happen.
  If antisemitism were the real deal-breaker, you wouldn’t be on BlueSky either.
  
  It's been 3 hours and your comment is still here...
  "Moderate" no, "Influence" yes. I see what you seemed to be trying to say: the Lemmy codebase is fairly authoritian e.g. lacks any way to contact a mod to find out why something was removed, even going so far as to obscure the name of the account that did it, simply saying "mod".
  So them being the ones who provide the codebase definitely "influences" us here, but on the other hand they provide the code for free, and anyone at all could make a fork off from it, and administer their own instance however they see fit. Or, as K/Mbin, PieFed, and Sublinks have all done, make their own ~~Reddit replacement~~ Threadiverse software entirely from scratch.
  See e.g. !fediverselore@lemmy.ca (here's a start to a post) that proves that people on the Fediverse are allowed to criticize the main Lemmy developers, while still using Lemmy software.
  On a personal note I will add: we can respect certain aspects of those people, even as we criticize other aspects, just as we do the same internally inside of our very selves.
- Nice try Jacob
- I'm Jewish myself and I completely agree with you.. Sadly it exists on a pretty much every social media, but BlueSky has a unique feature called sharable block lists/mute lists, I believe they call it "stacked moderation", I've subscribed to a few of those and it has blocked 90% of antisemites/terrorism sympathisers, I kinda wish some Fedi platform would have a similar feature as well

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